Alright, now when I first saw
the title of this comic “Chew,” I
was thinking to myself about what was so interesting about a comic book that
was all about food?Well, I WAS WRONG! “Chew:
Taster’s Choice” which was written by John
Layman along with artwork by Rob
Guillory and received an Eisner
Award for Best New Series and a Harvey
Award Winner, was one comic that really knew how to create a plot that not
only involves food but also involves a really intriguing crime drama that will
shock readers at the very end!

What is this story
about?

Meet Tony Chu who is a detective, but also has a bizarre
secret.You see, Tony Chu is known as a
Cibopathic, meaning that he can get psychic impressions from whatever he eats,
even going as far as tasting dead bodies to find out who murdered the victim
and why they murdered that victim.Because
of this special ability, Tony Chu gets accepted to the Special Crimes Division
of the FDA, which is known as the most powerful law enforcement division in the
world and has a new partner named Mason Savoy, who also is a Cibopathic!Now join the adventures of Tony Chu and Mason
Savoy as they uncover various crimes that happens in America while using their special
talents to solve the cases!

What I loved about
this story:

John Layman’s writing: Wow! Just wow…I had mentioned
that when I first saw the title of this book, I actually thought that it was
going to be all about food.Well, while John Layman does provide food as a
major theme of this comic, the plot of the story is basically a crime drama
that involves the murders of many people who are involved in the food
market.I loved the way that John Layman created a mysterious and
dark atmosphere for this comic as I am a huge fan of crime stories and I loved
the fact that Tony Chu uses his special gift as a way to solve crimes.Having Tony use his special gift to solve
murders really created an interesting and creative atmosphere for this story as
I never would have thought that a person tasting dead bodies to find out more
about the murder scenes would actually create intriguing stories about the
characters trying to solve crimes.Now, I
will admit that I am not a huge fan of gross out scenes and this comic
definitely has many gross out scenes, but somehow, John Layman made this experience for me truly worth it!John
Layman’s writing was so exciting and creative that I just could not put
this book down no matter how disgusting it got and I was drawn into the surreal
and dark world of “Chew” and the
plot twists that this comic so easily provided.

Rob Guillory’s artwork: Rob
Guillory’s artwork may be a bit bizarre looking, but it fits perfectly with
this type of story as the characters have odd shaped heads and have
disproportioned bodies.I also loved the
way that Rob Guillory drew the blood
scenes in this book as the blood usually squirts out of the characters in weird
ways, making the murder scenes look a bit cartoonish yet still have the effect
that it wanted to go for (PURE SHOCK
VALUE)!

What made me feel
uncomfortable about this story:

The biggest issue I did have with this comic was that there
were many disgusting scenes including scenes of characters vomiting all over
the pages and characters biting dead bodies to get a clue on the murders.Most of the time, I do not like disgusting
scenes in any story, even though this comic made the gross out scenes seem a
bit irrelevant to the story.Also, since
this comic focuses on murder scenes, there are many bloody scenes of characters
getting chopped up and that might be a bit upsetting for anyone who does not
like reading about bloody scenes.

Final Thoughts:

Overall, “Chew: Taster’s Choice Volume One” definitely exceeded my
expectations as I would have never thought that I would read a comic that
actually intertwines food and crime into one story and actually create an
interesting story that caught my attention from the very beginning!I will definitely be checking out the next
volume of this book and see where the characters are going after this first
volume!BON APPETITE…IF YOU DARE!

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